Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft

Dommage que ce nouveau patch ait réduit a médiocre la qualité de ces jeux pourtant légendaires

(Mostly copied and pasted with minor edits from my IV, V, and VI, remaster trilogy review. I will not be giving this first trilogy of remasters a positive review until they fix the outfit swapping bug. It's unacceptable, and I'm assuming it would be so easy to correct. It's a shame that the most accessible way to play these games may have new players in the wrong outfits for a first playthrough.) I'm not going to be reviewing the games themselves but rather if you should get the remasters or not. Are these good remasters? Yes, yes they are pretty good. Are they perfect? No, absolutely not. Am I glad they exist? Yes, absolutely. I'm glad the games are so accessible now for consoles and new players. My main issue is that the lighting and atmosphere has been changed drastically in most areas, losing the atmosphere almost entirely. Some areas look SO much better, and a lot of areas do not. Some textures just reek of AI upscaling also, which isn't necessarily a problem. It's not like they straight up generated new ones, at least I hope not. But it just gets surreal and strange to look at, although they admittedly did better with this in the next trilogy. These games are too iconic to just rely on AI to upscale things for you and call it a remaster, not that I don't think a lot of hard work went into these, because it did. It's still disappointing. I mostly played with the old graphics to get the original experience, switching frequently to see how things were updated. If this was a remake I wouldn't care as much, but they're remasters. It's not acceptable to change intentional lighting so much imo, especially when it makes some items too easy to see and some too hard to see. It really comes down to a few questions: Are you okay with the original block based platforming and controls? Are you okay with the original (beautiful imo) pixelated art style? Do you want to experience the original atmosphere and lighting? Are you okay with downloading external programs and source ports? If you answered yes to any or most of these I would recommend getting the original games and downloading TRX, which was created by very talented fans. It's more work but it's certainly cheaper, and it's a lot more consistent. For me personally, I'm a bit disappointed. The remasters don't do anything that I would miss if I went to play one of the original games instead. In fact TRX has even more options, including 60fps for the original graphics and PS1 style menus and sound effects if you grew up with those.